Providence Health & Services and its unionized workers in Oregon appear to remain deadlocked a week into the largest health care strike in Oregon history. Nearly 5,000 Providence nurses and about 150 doctors and advanced practitioners walked off the job early last Friday.

Providence Health & Services said its negotiators are ready to reopen talks with the Oregon Nurses Association to end a strike by 5,000 doctors, nurses and other medical personnel that began Jan. 10.

Here's what you need to know about the strike of nearly 5,000 health care workers, including doctors and nurses.

Oregon faces its largest healthcare worker strike, with 5,000 doctors and nurses from Providence Health on strike with no set end date.

Labcorp also purchased Legacy Health’s laboratory and announced in September that it planned to downsize that lab and shift its operations to the Providence location. 400 technicians working for Labcorp at Legacy hospitals have successfully unionized.

Thousands of Providence health care workers are striking this morning in the largest health care strike in Oregon history. Here's why.

After five days of strikes at Providence’s eight hospitals in Oregon and six of its women’s clinics, the health care company and union members representing nurses and others have agreed to return to negotiations.

The ONA has not warned its members of the dangers posed by the threats of the Trump administration to undertake ICE raids in “sensitive areas,” which historically have included hospitals.

Nearly 5,000 nurses, doctors and other health workers at Providence Health & Services hospitals and clinics in Oregon are walking off their jobs beginning 6 a.m. Friday. It is set to be the largest strike by health workers in the state’s history — and the first involving a union representing doctors.

The strike comes on the eve of Trump’s inauguration and the impending escalation of attacks on public health, medical workers and the working class as a whole.

Oregon’s Providence hospitals and nearly 5,000 of its workers have yet to agree on terms to bump wages and address staffing shortages. That means the largest health care strike in the state’s history will begin Friday morning.

More than 125 skilled dental professionals including dentists, dental hygienists, administrative support staff, and volunteers from the United States, Canada and the Caribbean have been engaged in the project. The Ministry of Health and Wellness team is being directed by the Director of Oral Health, Dr. Mitchell Lockhart.